This is a book that didn’t start out very well, but got better and better as it went along. I found the opening chapters slow, and the heroine isn’t a type of character that I care for. But as I say, the book just kept getting better. I’m quite happy that Heath is still writing…
For Camelot’s Honor is the second book in a series featuring brothers from King Arthur’s court. Although the novel is a bit predictable and mundane in the beginning, soon enough it becomes an emotionally packed and suspenseful book that is well worth the read. As the daughter of a Welsh chieftain, Elen leads a rather…
This is the last book in Karen Hawkins’s Talisman Ring series. The Talisman Ring belonged to the matriarch of the St. John family, and its legend says that the holder of the ring will find true love. Four St. John brothers have bitten the dust – er, already married – and Marcus St. John, Marquis…
I had a very hard time deciding what grade to give Tina St. John’s Heart of the Flame. It’s a pleasant read, smoothly told and nicely written, and I can’t really say there’s anything I disliked about it. But while it was nice enough, it had a number of flaws that kept it from being…
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation is a genre-bending book. It begins by introducing Eloise Kelley, our heroine in designer shoes; but instead of being a Chick Lit chick, said heroine is a student researching an historical figure. It doesn’t take too long before she finds a cache of diaries and letters, and pretty…
Okay, so you won’t find any Regency spies or half-baked suspense plots in Edith Layton’s latest. That’s the good news. The bad news is that you also won’t find a lot of reasons to keep turning the pages either. To put it bluntly, Alas, My Love is a classic Regency in Disguise and, what might…
The Lady Doth Protest seems to be loosely based on Lysistrata, a play where the women of Athens barricade themselves in the Acropolis and refuse to let the men have sex with them until they make peace with Sparta. Only Klassel’s humor is a bit broader than Aristophanes’. Lady Margaret de Languetot, called Megge by…
Blythe: Linda, Tina St. John’s been writing for years, and her first three books were DIK’d by AAR. In a way, it’s kind of surprising that I’d never read her before, but Heart of the Flame is the first of hers that I’ve tried. I think part of the reason is that I’m not the…
This novel has at its center a very interesting and little mentioned event in English Regency Romanceland. King George III is dead and Prinny has declared a year of mourning at the end of which he will be crowned King George IV. He plans to use that year to obtain a divorce from his despised…
To a casual browser, The Naked Duke looks like a light Regency-era historical romance, and it does have its share of witty banter and eccentric characters. But it also hearkens back to the old fashioned bodice-ripper, especially when it comes to the villain, who is a skanky piece of evilness with rape and murder on…
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